Combined mower and tedder



(No Model.)

J- M. BURDICK.

COMBINED MOWER AND TEDDER. I No. 285,792. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BURDIOK, OF ILION, NEW YORK.

CO MBINED MOWER AND TEDDER.

SPECIFICATIOIV formingpart of Letters Patent No. 285,792, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed November 25, me. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. BURDIOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ilion, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Tedders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,.

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in combined mower and hay-tedder, by which the cut grass is automatically elevated from the cutterbar of a I 5 mower, and subsequently discharged so as to fall with the tops downward, thereby leaving the butts and undergrowth exposed to the sun and air; and to this end the invention consists in a novel combination and arrangement of parts, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved hay-tedder connected with the fingerbar of a mower; Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the same; Fig. 3, an enlarged detached view of the gearing for actuating the roller.

My improvement is applicable to any of the common or general mowers now in use, a full description of which is not considered necessary. a

In connection with the finger-bar of a mower a frame, H, is extended backward and upward, and the rear end is supported on the other suitable manner. Upon rollers A and axle of a pair of high wheels, D D, or in any the main axle and the roller 0, all as more clearly shown in detail in Fig. 3.

By the above-described combinationand arrangement of parts it will be readily seen that the grass, when out, will fall upon the endless 4 5 apron and be carried backward and upward to a sufiicient height to be discharged so as to 'fallwith its tops downward, thus leaving the ward and backward, audits rear end arranged at such a height as to discharge the cut grass and permit it to fall tops downward, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described. v

2. The combination, with the finger-bar and cutting apparatus of a mower, of the frame H, the continuously-revolving apron mounted on rollers A 0, carried by said frame, the wheels and axle for supporting the rear end of the same, and connecting-gearingbetween the axle and roller 0, by which the latter is rotated to operate the endless apron, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. BURDICK.

Witnesses: DANIEL BREED, W. O. DUVALL. 

